On the way from Summerville center to Yarmouth we made a stop at the schoolhouse in Birchtown , now a museum about the settlement of Black Loyalists there. These were people from the southern slave-holding colonies who had joined the British side against the revolutionaries.

For their service the Loyalists were given a promise of land and supplies in Nova Scotia. It didn’t end well for most of the Black Loyalists, and most decided to depart for a new settlement in Freetown Sierra Leone.